Browsing by Subject "case-control study"

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    • Association Between Interleukin 6 Gene Haplotype and Alzheimer's Disease: A Brazilian Case-Control Study 

      Rasmussen, Lucas [UNIFESP]; Delabio, Roger; Horiguchi, Lie; Mizumoto, Igor; Terazaki, Carlos-Renato; Mazzotti, Diego [UNIFESP]; Bertolucci, Paulo-Henrique [UNIFESP]; Pinhel, Marcela-Augusta; Souza, Doroteia; Krieger, Henrique; Kawamata, Carlos; Minett, Thais; Smith, Marilia Cardoso [UNIFESP]; Payao, Spencer-Luiz (Ios Press, 2013-01-01)
      Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that takes the form of a local overexpression of cytokines and other inflammatory molecules. We investigated three single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) ...

    • Gender and minor psychiatric morbidity: Results of a case-control study in a developing country 

      Coutinho, Evandro da Silva Freire; Almeida Filho, Naomar de; Mari, Jair de Jesus [UNIFESP]; Rodrigues, Laura C. (Baywood Publ Co Inc, 1999-01-01)
      Objective: Women suffer from minor psychiatric disorders (MPM) more frequently than men. Most of the studies were conducted in England and in the United States and some reported the higher occurrence of MPM among women to ...

    • A multinational case-control study of cardiovascular disease and steroid hormone contraceptives - Description and validation of methods 

      Debert-Ribeiro, Myriam [UNIFESP]; Medina, E.; Artigas, J.; He, S.; Hui, Z. Y.; Zhang, D. W.; Rojas, O.; Vessey, M.; Heinemann, L.; Donnan, S.; Ho, S.; Bartfai, G.; Kisjanto, J.; Wilks, R.; Agwanda, R.; Ruiz, R.; Kozuh-Novak, M.; Dusitsin, N.; Virutamasen, P.; Phanthumchinda, K.; Demirovic, J.; Belkic, K.; Mwandila, W. S.; Mutale, C. M.; Matenga, J.; Wilson, A. (Elsevier B.V., 1995-12-01)
      A hospital-based, case-control study of the association between current usage of oral contraceptives and first-time cases of acute myocardial infarction, stroke, or a venous thromboembolic event (deep vein thrombosis or ...

    • Risk factors for overweight among Brazilian adolescents of low-income families: a case-control study 

      Silveira, Daniela [UNIFESP]; Taddei, Jose Augusto de Aguiar Carrazedo [UNIFESP]; Schimith Escrivão, Maria Arlete Meil [UNIFESP]; Oliveira, Fernanda Luisa Ceragioli [UNIFESP]; Lopez, Fábio Ancona [UNIFESP] (Cambridge Univ Press, 2006-06-01)
      Objective: To study risk factors for overweight among Brazilian adolescents of low-income families.Design: Case-control study of obese and non-obese adolescents.Setting: Anthropometric survey including 1420 students (aged ...

    • Risk factors of obesity among Brazilian adolescents: a case-control study 

      Neutzling, M. B.; Taddei, Jose Augusto de Aguiar Carrazedo [UNIFESP]; Gigante, D. P. (C A B I Publishing, 2003-12-01)
      Objective: To study risk factors associated with overweight and obesity among adolescents enrolled in private high schools in the city of Pelotas, southern Brazil.Method, This was a case-control study. the subjects were ...

    • TNF-alpha polymorphisms are associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder 

      Hounie, Ana Gabriela; Cappi, Carolina; Cordeiro, Quirino; Sampaio, Aline Santos; Moraes, Ivanil; Rosario, Maria Conceicao do [UNIFESP]; Palacios, Selma A.; Goldberg, Anna Carla; Vallada, Homero Pinto; Machado-Lima, Ariane; Nakano, Eduardo; Kalil, Jorge; Pauls, David; Pereira, Carlos Alberto B.; Guilherme, Luiza; Miguel, Euripedes Constantino (Elsevier B.V., 2008-09-12)
      Introduction: Several lines of evidence support an immunologic involvement in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): the increased prevalence of OCD in patients with rheumatic fever (RF), and the aggregation of obsessive-compulsive ...